Custom Sandbox

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Custom Sandbox allows the player to adjust the game settings to the way they like. After choosing a starting location, the player can choose their own options, or choose a preset to customise. In the Saved Presets box at the bottom, each default option is the same settings used in the default game modes.

*NOTE: the Character options have a set default 'difficulty' for each preset*

Sandbox options

Population

Zombie Count: Changing this will adjust the "Population Multiplier" advanced option.

Count	Scenario
Insane	Six Months Later
Very High
High	Survival
Normal	Apocalypse The First Week
Low	Initial Infection
None

Zombie Distribution: Determines whether zombie distribution will be balanced across the map, or focused in urban areas.

Distribution	Scenario
Urban Focused	Apocalypse Initial Infection First Week Six Months Later Survival
Uniform

Time

Day length: is the time for an in-game day to take in real-time. This will affect how fast the player gets hungry or thirsty. Therefore, the longer the game day is, the longer it will take to get hungry or thirsty. This can be adjusted hourly from anywhere between 1 hour to real-time (24 hours), or 15 and 30 minutes. The default day length is 1 hour for all game modes.

Start Month: The month the game will start in. This will affect the current weather, foraging and farming. July will have greater harvests, whereas December will have poorer.

Month	Scenario
January
February
March
April
May
June
July	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Survival
August
September
October
November
December	Six Months Later

Start Day: This determines which day of the month the game will start in. The default for all game modes is the 9th.

Start Time: This determines the time when the game first starts, which will affect how much daylight the player will have on their first day. Daylight provides a buff to the player's sight. Zombies are attracted to light sources during the night.

Time	Scenario
7 am
9 am	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Survival Six Months Later
12 pm
2 pm
5 pm
9 pm
12 am
2 am
5 am

World

Water Shutoff: The water will randomly stop working any day within this range. For example, selecting 2-6 months will give the player at least 2 months to prepare themselves before the water is shutoff. There will still be some left over water in sinks and toilets, however this is non-sustainable and will eventually run out.

Shutoff	Scenario
Instant	Six Months Later
0-30 days	Apocalypse Survival
0-2 months
0-6 months
0-1 year
0-5 years
2-6 months	The First Week
6-12 months	Initial Infection

Electricity Shutoff: The electricity will randomly stop working any day within this range. For example, selecting 2-6 months will give the player at least 2 months to prepare themselves before the electricity is shutoff. Which will stop refrigerators and lights from functioning.

Shutoff	Scenario
Instant	Six Months Later
0-30 days	Apocalypse Survival
0-2 months
0-6 months
0-1 year
0-5 years
2-6 months	The First Week
6-12 months	Initial Infection

House Alarms Frequency: This is how often you will come across houses with an active burglar alarm, which once triggered will generate a loud noise attracting zombies to the location of the alarm. Houses with alarms usually have locked windows and unlocked front doors. Currently (Weather Test 40.3) this is not related to the Item; Home Alarm.

Frequency	Scenario
Never	Six Months Later
Extremely Rare	Initial Infection
Rare	The First Week
Sometimes	Apocalypse Survival
Often
Very Often

Locked Houses Frequency: This is how often houses will have their doors locked.

Frequency	Scenario
Never	Six Months Later
Extremely Rare	Initial Infection
Rare	The First Week
Sometimes
Often
Very Often	Apocalypse Survival

Food Spoilage: Defines how fast the food will spoil inside or outside fridge.

Rate	Scenario
Very Fast
Fast
Normal	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Slow	Initial Infection
Very Slow

Refrigeration Effectiveness: Define how effective a fridge will be at slowing the rate of food spoilage.

Effectiveness	Scenario
Very Low
Low
Normal	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival
High	Initial Infection
Very High

Rotten Food Removal: This value is an integer defining the number of in-game days before rotten food is removed from the map. -1 means rotten food will never be removed. [Default=-1]

Loot Respawn: Items will respawn in already-looted containers in towns and trailer parks. Items will not respawn in player-made containers.

Effectiveness	Scenario
None	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Every day
Every week
Every month
Every 2 months

Loot Seen Prevent Hours: This value is an integer defining the number of in-game hours. When >0, loot will not respawn in chunks (10x10 tiles) that have been seen by a player within this number of hours. [Default=0]

World Item Removal List: A list of items that will be removed after Hours for Removal List hours. [Default=Base.Hat,Base.Glasses,Base.Maggots]

Hours for Removal List: The amount of time for World Item Removal List items to be removed [Default=24.0]

Removal List as Whitelist: If false, items in World Item Removal List will be removed. If true, items not in World Item Removal List will be removed. [Default=Off]

Months Since The Apocalypse: This is how long it has been since the apocalypse began, affecting starting Erosion and Food Age.

Months	Scenario
0	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Survival
1
2
3
4
5
6	Six Months Later
7
8
9
10
11
12

Darkness During Night: Defines how dark it is at night, affecting the player's visibility.

Months	Scenario
Pitch Black
Dark
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Bright

Fire Spread: This is a check box that can be turned On or Off. Disabling this will stop fire from spreading to nearby flammable material. [Default=On]

Generator Working In Exterior: This is a check box that can be turned On or Off. If enabled, generator will work on exterior tiles, allowing for example to power a gas pump. [Default=On]

Initial Gas Station Amount: Changes how filled gas tanks inside of fuel stations will be initially.

Amount	Scenario
Empty
Super Low
Very Low
Low
Normal	Apocalypse Builder Six Months Later
High
Very High
Full	Initial Infection
Infinite

Light Bulb Lifespan: How long lightbulbs last before breaking, higher values lasting longer. If 0, they never break. Does not affect vehicle headlights. [Default=1.0]

Nature

Temperature: This will affect the Weather and therefore your temperature Moodle.

Temperature	Scenario
Very cold
Cold
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Hot
Very hot

Rain: This will affect how much rain there is and therefore your wet Moodle.

Rain	Scenario
Very dry
Dry
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Rainy
Very rainy

Erosion Speed: Affects the speed of Erosion for roads and buildings. Number of days until 100% growth.

Rate	Scenario
Very fast (20 days)	The First Week Six Months Later
Fast (50 days)
Normal (100 days)	Apocalypse Initial Infection Survival
Slow (200)
Very slow (500)

Farming Speed: Affects how fast your crops grow in Farming

Rate	Scenario	Modifier
Very fast		0.33
Fast	Initial Infection	0.67
Normal	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival	1
Slow		1.5
Very slow		3

Plant Resilience: Determines how often the plant loses water and increases disease level if diseased.

Resilience	Scenario	Hours
Very low		2
Low		3
Normal	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival	5
High		8
Very high	Initial Infection	12

Farming's Abundance: Will influence how many additional vegetables a plant will grow.

Abundance	Scenario	Modifier
Very poor		-4
Poor		-2
Normal	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival	0
Abundant	The First Week	3
Very abundant	Initial Infection	5

Nature's Abundance: Affects the difficulty of fishing and foraging.

Abundance	Scenario
Very poor
Poor
Normal	Apocalypse Survival
Abundant	The First Week
Very abundant	Initial Infection Six Months Later

Compost Time: Determines how long it will take for food to decay in a composter.

Time	Scenario
1 Week
2 Weeks	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
3 Weeks
4 Weeks
6 Weeks
8 Weeks
10 Weeks
12 Weeks

Maximum Fog Intensity: How thick the fog will get.

Intensity	Scenario
Normal	Apocalypse Survival The First Week Initial Infection Six Months Later
Moderate
Low

Maximum Rain FX Intensity: How much rain will fall.

Intensity	Scenario
Normal	Apocalypse Survival The First Week Initial Infection Six Months Later
Moderate
Low

Enable Snow On Ground: If disabled snow will not accumulate on ground but will still be visible on vegetation and rooftops. [Default=On]

Enable 'Tainted Water' tooltip: If enabled, tainted water will be marked in-game as such. [Default=On]

Sadistic AI Director

Helicopter: How often helicopters pass over the Event zone. Helicopters last for a long time, will leave, then come back, bringing hordes of zombies towards the player from many directions.

Frequency	Scenario
Never
Once	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Sometimes
Often

Meta Event: How often zombie attracting meta-game events like gunshots will occur. This will cause zombies to move towards the direction of the event. It should be noted that this is audio only, following the noise will not lead the player to the source.

Frequency	Scenario
Never
Once
Sometimes	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Often

Sleeping Event: Governs night-time metagame events during the player's sleep, such as night terrors.

Frequency	Scenario
Never	Apocalypse
Once
Sometimes	Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Often

Loot Rarity

Non-Canned Food: For all the different foods, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Canned Food: For all the different canned foods, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Melee Weapons: For all the different weapons, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Ranged Weapons: For all the different ranged weapons, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Ammo: For all the different types of ammo, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Medical: For all medical items, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Survival Essentials: Seeds, nails, saws, Fishing Rods, various tools, etc...

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Mechanics:

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Literature: For all literature items, click here.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Other: Every other item type that doesn't fit into the above categories.

Rarity	Scenario
None (not recommended)
Insanely rare
Extremely rare
Rare	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
Common	The First Week
Abundant	Initial Infection

Character

XP Multiplier: Affects how much experience the player will get from various tasks. [Minimum-0.001] [Maximum-1000] [Default=1]

XP Multiplier Affects Passive Skills: If true, Fitness and Strength skills are affected by XP Multiplier. [Default=Off]

Stats Decrease: How fast character's hunger, thirst and fatigue will decrease.

Rate	Scenario
Very fast
Fast
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Slow
Very slow

Endurance Regeneration: This affects how fast fatigue will decrease.

Rate	Scenario
Very fast
Fast
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Slow
Very slow

Nutrition: This is a check box determining whether nutritional value of food affects the player's condition. [Default=On]

Starter Kit: Start with a school bag, baseball bat, hammer, water bottle and chips. [Default=Off]

Free Traits: Adds free points during character creation, on top of the standard 8. [Default=0]

Player-Built Construction Strength: Determines the hitpoints of structures the player has built.

Strength	Scenario
Very low
Low
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
High
Very high

Injury Severity: Increase and decrease the impact injuries have on your body, and their healing time.

Severity	Scenario
Low
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
High

Bone Fracture: Enable or disable broken limbs when survivors receive injuries from impacts, zombie damage and falls. [Default=On]

Clothing Degradation: Governs how quickly clothing degrades, becomes dirty and bloodied. (Can be disabled).

Rate	Scenario
Disabled
Slow
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Fast

Rear Vulnerability: Chance of being bitten when attacked from behind.

Rate	Scenario
Low
Medium
High	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival

Weapon Multi-Hit: Allows some melee weapons to hit and push multiple zombies at once while using them. [Default=Off]

Melee Movement Disruption: If enabled, the player slows while swinging. [Default=On]

All Clothing Unlocked: Unlocks all clothing items in the game during character creation. [Default=On]

Enable Poisoning: Determines if poisoning food is allowed. [Default=On]

Rate	Scenario
True	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
False
Only bleach poisoning is disabled

In-game Map

Allow Mini-Map: Enables in-game mini-map. [Default=Off]

Allow World Map: Allows players to open up the world map. [Default=On]

All Known On Start: Unlocks all map data automatically at the beginning. [Default=Off]

Vehicle

Vehicles: Enable or disable vehicles from spawning into the game.

Easy Use: If true cars will all be unlocked with a full gas tank, don't require keys, etc.

Recent Survivor Vehicles: Governs whether the player can discover a car that has been maintained and cared for after the infection struck, i.e. is still in working order.

Rate	Scenario
None
Low	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Normal
High	Initial Infection

Zombie Attraction Multiplier: Use this to multiply or reduce engine general loudness. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=100] [Default=1]

Car Spawn Rate:

Rate	Scenario
Low	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal	The First Week
High	Initial Infection

Chance Has Gas: Governs the chances of finding vehicles with gas in the tank.

Rate	Scenario
Low	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal
High	Initial Infection The First Week

Initial Gas: Governs how full gas tanks will be in discovered cars.

Level	Scenario
Very low
Low	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Normal	The First Week
High
Very high	Initial Infection
Full

Gas Consumption: The rate in which vehicles will consume fuel. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=100] [Default=1].

Locked Frequency: How frequent the doors of a vehicle will be locked.

Frequency	Scenario
Never	Six Months Later Survival
Extremely rare	Initial Infection
Rare	Apocalypse The First Week
Sometimes
Often
Very often

General Condition: In what condition new cars will spawn.

Level	Scenario
Very low	Six Months Later Survival
Low	Apocalypse
Normal	The First Week
High	Initial Infection
Very high

Car Wreck Congestion: Enable or disable traffic jams that spawn on the main roads of the map. [Default=On]

Car Alarms Frequency: The frequency in which a car alarm will be triggered when opening a door. This will attract zombies to the vehicle's position.

Frequency	Scenario
Never	Six Months Later Survival
Extremely rare	Apocalypse Initial Infection
Rare	The First Week
Sometimes
Often
Very often

Player Damaged From Crash: Enable or disable player getting damage from being in a car accident. [Default=On]

Car Damage On Impact: Governs the amount of damage dealt to vehicles that crash.

Damage	Scenario
Very low
Low
Normal	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
High
Very high

Siren Shutoff Hours: Number of hours before the siren sound of a car alarm will stop playing. 0.0 means it will play until the car battery is dead. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=168] [Default=0]

Damage To Player From Hit By Car: Damage received by the player from the car in a collision.

Damage	Scenario
None	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Low
Normal
High
Very high

Zombie Lore

Proper Zombies: Enabling this setting disables changing the following options.

Speed: The speed of zombies when giving chase. Fast shamblers will both run and shamble towards their target.

Speed	Scenario
Sprinters
Fast Shamblers	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Shamblers	Initial Infection
Random

Strength: How hard a zombie will hit when dealing damage to both the player and world objects, along with the likeliness they will break the skin when attacking.

Strength	Scenario
Superhuman
Normal	Apocalypse Survival
Weak	Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later
Random

Toughness: The hitpoints of zombies and how likely they are to fall over.

Toughness	Scenario
Tough
Normal	Apocalypse The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Fragile	Initial Infection
Random

Transmission: How the transmission of the zombie infection occurs. Blood infections refer to infections from scratches and lacerations. You can't get infected even if you are exposed to blood or get injured while wearing blood-stained clothes. Everyone's infected will cause all players to reanimate once they're killed, similarly to The Walking Dead.

Transmission	Scenario
Blood + Saliva	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Saliva Only
Everyone's Infected
None

Infection Mortality: How long it will take for the zombie infection to kill its host, i.e. the player. If you set the infection mortality rate to zero, you will get sick when bitten by a zombie, but you won't turn into a zombie and die.

Rate	Scenario
Instant
0-30 seconds
0-1 minutes
0-12 hours
2-3 days	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
1-2 weeks
Never

Reanimate Time: How long after death before an infected player will be reanimated.

Time	Scenario
Instant
0-30 seconds
0-1 minutes	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
0-12 hours
2-3 days
1-2 weeks

Cognition: How effective zombies are at navigating to reach their target. Determines whether zombies will attempt to open doors, break windows or doors, or simply attempt to walk around to reach their target, respectively.

Cognition	Scenario
Navigate + use doors
Navigate	Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later
Basic navigation	Apocalypse Survival
Random

Crawl Under Vehicle: Determines which zombies can crawl underneath vehicles.

Cognition	Scenario
Crawlers Only
Extremely Rare
Rare
Sometimes
Often	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later
Very Often
Always

Memory: How long a zombie will give chase before giving up.

Memory	Scenario
Long
Normal	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Short	Initial Infection The First Week
None
Random

Sight: How large the radius of the sight cone is, and therefore be able to spot a player from farther away, or in their peripherals.

Sight	Scenario
Eagle
Normal	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Poor	Initial Infection The First Week
Random

Hearing: The distance in which they were move towards a noise, such as broken windows or dying zombies.

Hearing	Scenario
Pinpoint
Normal	Apocalypse Six Months Later Survival
Poor	Initial Infection The First Week
Random

Environmental Attacks: Zombies that have not seen/heard the player can attack doors and constructions while roaming. [Default=Off]

Damage Construction: Governs whether or not zombies can destroy player constructions and defences. [Default=On]

Day/Night Active: Governs whether zombies are most active during the day, or whether they act more nocturnally. Inactive zombies will be slower, and tend not to give chase.

Activity	Scenario
Both	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Night
Day

Zombie House Alarm Triggering: Allows zombies to trigger house alarms when breaking through windows and doors. Enabling this option will cause zombies to constantly be moving around populated areas, making the early game much more difficult. [Default=Off]

Drag Down: Allows the player to be dragged down if attacked by multiple zombies. [Default=On]

Fence Lunge: Allows zombies climbing over fences to sometimes lunge at the player. [Default=On]

Fake Dead Zombie Reanimation: Some zombies in the world will pretend to be dead.

Activity	Scenario
Some zombies in the world will pretend to be dead	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
Some zombies in the world, as well as some you 'kill', can pretend to be dead
Zombies will never pretend to be dead

Advanced Zombie Options

The defaults are for the Apocalypse game mode.

Population Multiplier: Set by the "Zombie Count" population option. 4.0 = Insane, 2.0 = High, 1.0 = Normal, 0.35 = Low, 0.0 = None. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=4] [Default=1]

Population Start Multiplier: Adjusts the desired population at the start of the game. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=4] [Default=1]

Population Peak Multiplier: Adjusts the desired population on the peak day. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=4] [Default=1.5]

Population Peak Day: The day when the population reaches its peak. [Minimum=1] [Maximum=365] [Default=28]

Respawn Hours: The number of hours that must pass before zombies may respawn in a cell. If zero, spawning is disabled. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=8760] [Default=72]

Respawn Unseen Hours: The number of hours that a chunk must be unseen before zombies may respawn in it. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=8760] [Default=16]

Respawn Multiplier: The fraction of a cell's desired population that may respawn every RespawnHours. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=1] [Default=0.1]

Redistribute Hours: The number of hours that must pass before zombies migrate to empty parts of the same cell. If zero, migration is disabled. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=8760] [Default=12]

Follow Sound Distance: The distance a virtual zombie will try to walk towards the last sound it heard. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=1000] [Default=100]

Rally Group Size: The size of groups real zombies from when idle. Zero means zombies don't form groups. Groups don't form inside buildings or forest zomes. [Minimum=0] [Maximum=1000] [Default=20]

Rally Travel Distance: The distance real zombies travel to form groups when idle. [Minimum=5] [Maximum=50] [Default=20]

Rally Group Separation: The distance between zombie groups. [Minimum=05] [Maximum=25] [Default=15]

Rally Group Radius: How close members of a group stay to the group's leader. [Minimum=1] [Maximum=10] [Default=3]

Level	Scenario
In and around bodies	Apocalypse Initial Infection The First Week Six Months Later Survival
In bodies only
Never